Should I Be Worried?

[lxskllr]

The vultures of despair have been hanging around my house lately. There was literally at at least three dozen out there earlier. They hang out in my oak tree. This piccture was taken a few months ago; not quite as many...

Do they know something I don't?

 

[Brainonska511]

It's happening:

 

[brianmanahan]

alas, poor OP. i knew him, horatio.

 

[Captante]

Can I have your stuff?

 

[GagHalfrunt]

I'd take it as a statement about your personal hygiene. You obviously smell like a dead cow rotting in the sun.

 

[lxskllr]

I'd take it as a statement about your personal hygiene. You obviously smell like a dead cow rotting in the sun.

I prefer to think of myself as "aromatic".

 

[Mai72]

They are just waiting until you croak. They are saying amongst themselves "I want his eyes." Or "when is this guy going to die? I'm hungry!"

 

[AKACyrano]

Do you have a gas pipeline near/on your property? I believe they put something in the mix so that they can use buzzards as an indicator of a leak.

 

[Ricky Spanish]

You're screwed, avaian style.

 

[IronWing]

Do you have a gas pipeline near/on your property? I believe they put something in the mix so that they can use buzzards as an indicator of a leak.

^^ This. This isn't your day to barbecue.

Also, what's with the picture quality? Open source camera?

 

[Imp]

I dun know what's happening... but yes.

 

[waitman]

They usually circle in flight looking for a meal, when they stay still like that the next step is following you around on the ground and finally eating your dead carcass. I'd be worrying if I was you.

 

[Ruptga]

It's hard to tell by OP's shitty compressed pic, but those look more like black vultures than turkey vultures, and black vultures can't smell.

 

[bradly1101]

Just give 'em the finger and they'll go away.

 

[BoomerD]

I suspect they know something you apparently do not...

 

[lxskllr]

^^ This. This isn't your day to barbecue.

Also, what's with the picture quality? Open source camera?

Proprietary camera :^P I don't really have a camera. I'm not good at photos, so my phone camera is good enough. That was an S5 at maximum digital zoom. Those birds are probably ~250' from me point-point.

It's hard to tell by OP's shitty compressed pic, but those look more like black vultures than turkey vultures, and black vultures can't smell.

Yea, they're black vultures. Didn't know they couldn't smell. That might explain why they didn't want my turkey. Had a freezer mishap last year, and it was awhile before I discovered it. I turned the freezer back on, and thought happy thoughts. Anyway, I had a nice stinky turkey I thought the vultures might enjoy, so I put it in the yard, and... Nothing. Zero fucks given about my treat. The turkey walked around a bit at night before it disappeared completely. I guess the foxes took it.

 

[Slacker]

 

[JEDI]

The vultures of despair have been hanging around my house lately. There was literally at at least three dozen out there earlier. They hang out in my oak tree. This piccture was taken a few months ago; not quite as many...

Do they know something I don't?

shotgun?
kill them b4 they eat u?

bonus points if u use slugs instead of bird shot and still kill them all w/o reloading.
position yourself such that 3+ are in a line. 1 slug thru them all

 

[Slacker]

No prob

 

[IronWing]

Killing scavengers is a sin in most cultures, bad karma. Granted, black vultures can kill, they usually don't.

 

[John Connor]

"Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."